goldstandard {labstats}

Data to compare a new method against a gold standard

Description

Simulated data for one gold standard and four other outcome variables.

Format

A data frame with 20 rows and 5 variables:

goldstandard:

Values for the gold standard outcome variable.

perfect.cor:

An outcome variable that is identical to the gold standard.

noise:

An outcome variable created by adding noise to the gold standard.

location:

An outcome variable created by adding noise plus a shift in location.

scale:

An outcome variable created by adding noise plus a shift in scale.

Details

The data contains a gold standard plus four other simulated variables that vary from the gold standard in different ways.